What did Donald Trump claim about crime on 7 Feb 2017?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years.
Far from the highest. The 2015 U.S. murder rate was 4.9 per 100,000, lower than in every year from 1996 through 2008.
FBI data put the 2015 U.S. murder rate, the latest available then, at 4.9 per 100,000. That was lower than every year from 1996 through 2008, when the rate ran from 5.4 to 7.4 (FBI, Crime in the United States 2015, Table 1).
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- Roundtable with county sheriffs in the Roosevelt Room, the White House.
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